mcfarland
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| Grounding problem: I'm clueless Zenek is correct. A few years back, Stereophile magazine had an article which described applying sheets of magnetic sheilding to the plinthe of the turntable (I beleive the TT they were sheilding to be a Rega) which solved the problem well, but ma... | |
| Tube's needed, 6922's or equal for Preamp Qty.3 Try Andy Bowman at Vintage Tube Services. You can get the link through the atma-sphere.com website. For warm, lush sounding tubes try Mullards, Clean accurate sounding tubes, try Seimans and WEST german Telefunkens of 60's vintage or earlier. That... | |
| Mint Condition, Doesn't Anyone Know What It Means IMHO I take MINT to mean a USED item that is virtually indistinguishable from new and INCLUDES the original box, paperwork, and all of the "bits" that would ordinarily be received by the buyer if it were new. I see all to many items advertized as ... | |
| Best Sounding Tube Integrated Amp I really enjoy my Jadis Orchestra Reference, even if tube biasing is not so simple with this unit. The sound is fantastic! You really should put this unit on your list to audition. Happy Listening, | |
| Best SS Amp with tight clean bass If tight clean bass is what you are looking for, the Crown Macro Reference is extremely powerful, fast, and articulate in the bass. It will control your woofers! | |
| Tube amp to pair with Triangles? I am currently using a Jadis Orchestra Reference in my wife's studio with Triangle Titus's on stands. Sound is excellent, though light in the bass. When I had the amp hooked up to HK-Sixty's, the bass was full bodied, yet suprizingly taut and deta... | |
| deHavilland Ultraverve 6sn7 tube question? Andy Bowman at Vintage Tube Services (get link through atma-sphere.com) is very knowledgable and has current listings of many nos 6sn7 tubes along with their various attributes. I believe that the Sylvania 6sn7's of the forty's, fifty's and early ... | |
| old stereo and speaker wire Zip cord was what we used to use in those days, but you might try a set of shortened "pin" connectors. I used those on an old Marantz receiver and they worked just fine. Happy listening. | |
| Need Info/Opinions of Mod Squad Duet Preamp Steve McCormick runs SMC Audio which has a website. He can answer any questions you have as he was the designer for the Mod Squad product line. | |
| Distant from front wall You are right. I stand corrected. I had assumed that the odd ratio's of 1/3 and 1/5 (Fibonacci numbers) would naturally progress to 1/7 and 1/9, which they do not. The next would be 1/8, according to the link supplied. I am using the 1/5 ratio, at... | |
| Distant from front wall In regards to distance from the wall, I have had very good soundstaging resulting from using a fibanachi (sp?) ratio to calculate the distance (i.e. 1/3, 1/5, 1/7th, etc. of the room dimension). Happy Listening, | |
| Tube Comparisons on VTL 7.5 Correct me if I am wrong but I don't think you are supposed to deviate from stock supplied tube types (for instance substituting a 12 ax7 for a 12 au7, as they have different gains. Different brands of 12 au7s will give different sonic signatures.... | |
| Preamp Tubes for KR AUDIO 18 BSI The owner's manual should be able to tell you the type of tubes used. The tubes themselves are also probably labeled as well. Once the stock configuration is known, just let us at least know the type of tubes you already have, what type of music y... | |
| tube amp info I'm not sure, but I beleive that the volume settings on the pre-amp for two different amplifiers will vary with the impedance of the amplifiers in question. As you play your amps more, you will notice a point during warm up in which everything jus... | |
| Balanced preamps with Atma-sphere MA-2's I have a pair of m60 2.2's that have been upgraded to 2.3 status. I was driving them with what I thought to be excellant results with my Melos SHA 1 linestage(with Siemans 6922 goldpins). I then acquired an Audio Experience Balanced linestage. Wha... |